Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: "Successful folks focus in on what they love and they wait for the world to come to them."

World's wealthiest author, J.K. Rowling: "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."

Microsoft founder Bill Gates: "Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity."

Google cofounder Larry Page: "Families brought you here, and you brought them here. Please keep them close and remember: they are what really matters in life."